OCT 23 | MONDAY

OCT 24 | TUESDAY

OCT 25 | WEDNESDAY

• Dr. Marina Adler (Sociology, Anthropology, and Health Administration and Policy, Professor)
• Corinne Janet (Student Life, Coordinator for Leadership)
• Romy Huebler (Student Life, Coordinator for Student Organizations and Involvement)
• Dr. Jana Rehak (Anthropology, Instructor)
• Dr. Kimberly Moffitt (American Studies, Associate Professor)
• Rabbi Jeremy Fierstein (UMBC Hillel, Executive Director)

OCT 26 | THURSDAY

OCT 27 | FRIDAY

Special thanks to our Critical Social Justice co-sponsors:
Student Life’s Mosaic Center, Residential Life, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Honors College, Off-Campus Student Services, Counseling Center, University Health Services Health Promotions, Human Relations/Title IX Office, LGBTQ Faculty and Staff Association, Relationship Violence Awareness and Prevention (RVAP), The Social Work Program, Student Disability Services, Department of Psychology, Women Involved in Learning and Leadership, Sociology, Anthropology, and Health Administration and Policy (SAHAP), Department of American Studies, Department of Media and Communication Studies, Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communication, Race & Inclusion Scholars

• approaches to telecollaboration and virtual exchange across disciplines
• learning outcomes of virtual exchange and telecollaboration
• different dimensions of virtual exchange (teachers, teacher trainers, students, administration)
• different modes (blended mobility) and models (e.g. Soliya, Cultura) of virtual exchange
• task design and resources in virtual exchange
• telecollaboration and its role in the development of digital literacies
• technological interfaces and multimodality in telecollaborative exchanges
• virtual exchanges involving learners from non-western contexts and the global South
• telecollaboration and its role in the development of global citizenship
• conflict management in / through telecollaboration
• virtual exchanges as complex learning environments: facing the challenge

• 4 September 2017: call for papers opens
• 15 December 2017: deadline for abstract submission
• 31 January 2018: notification of acceptance; early-bird registration opens
• 28 February 2018: early-bird registration deadline
• 31 March 2018: final registration deadline
• 25-27 April: the conference

Acts 6:3-6 (ESV) - Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty. But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch. These they set before the apostles, and they prayed and laid their hands on them.

How beautiful the feet of Philip who brought the good news to the Ethiopian Eunuch and many more! And, he is mentioned as one of the seven that were being set apart for the Lord’s work and he was one of “good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom.”  Beautiful feet come from a beautiful life that is in and surrendered to Christ, being filled with the Holy Spirit.

Let’s reflect on this excerpt of Hudson Taylor from the book, Hudson Taylor written by J. Hudson Taylor, pages 14-15:

“Not many months after my conversion, having a leisure afternoon, I retired to my own chamber to spend it largely in communion with God.  Well do I remember that occasion.  How in the gladness of my heart I poured out my soul before God; and again and again confessing my grateful love to Him who had done everything for me - who had saved me when I had given up all hope and even desire for salvation - I besought Him to give me some work to do for Him, as an outlet for love and gratitude; some self-denying service, no matter what it might be, however trying or however trivial; something with which He would be pleased, and that I might do for Him who had done so much for me. Well do I remember, as in unreserved consecration I put myself, my life, my friends, my all, upon the altar, the deep solemnity that came over my soul with the assurance that my offering was accepted.  The presence of God became unutterably real and blessed; and though but a child under sixteen, I remember stretching myself on the ground, and lying there silent before Him with unspeakable awe and unspeakable joy.

For what service I was accepted I knew not; but a deep consciousness that I was no longer my own took possession of me, which has never been effaced.”

Prayer & Worship:“Make My Life A Prayer to You” by Keith Green - https://youtu.be/PNww8F6G9U8

- EK